Bill Text: NY S00145 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires notice of potential scams when selling gift cards.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-06-02 - SUBSTITUTED BY A266A [S00145 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S00145-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         145--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  THOMAS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Consumer  Protection  --
          recommitted to the Committee on Consumer Protection in accordance with
          Senate  Rule  6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the general  business  law,  in  relation  to  providing
          notice of potential scams when selling gift cards

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 396-i of the general business  law  is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision 2-b to read as follows:
     3    2-b.  No  person,  firm, partnership, association or corporation shall
     4  sell a gift certificate to a purchaser  unless  the  seller  displays  a
     5  conspcuous  notice at or near where the gift certificate is displayed or
     6  at or near the  physical  location  where  the  sale  occurs,  that  (i)
     7  cautions  the purchaser about prepaid card scams, and (ii) instructs the
     8  purchaser on what to do if they suspect they might be a potential victim
     9  of such a scam.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    11  it shall have become a law.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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